Improvement in siruping devices for bottling-machines



WILLIAM TOLLAST.

`Sirupng Device for' BOttHng-Machines.

Patented Apri! 23, 1872; N0.126,103.v

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WILLIAM TOLLAST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,103, dated April 23, 1872;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ToLLAs'r, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented aA new and useful Improvement in Siruping Devices for Bottling-lilachines, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebein g had'to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specication, and in which- Figiire 1. represents a sectional elevation of an apparatus constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both iigures.

My invention relates to devices for supplying a measured quantity of sirup into bottles when under the iilling-head of a bottling-machine, combined with a supply of water charged with carbonio-acid gas under pressure, and caused to also pass through the siruping device, whereby the bottle is charged with sirup and filled with said water in a continuous m anner while under the bottling-machine, to which the siruping device forms an attachment. The invention consists in a novel construction of device or apparatus for the purpose, including a particular combination of details, among which is a screw-plunger and system of valves operating in connection therewith, whereby efticiency is combined with simplicity, durability, and compactness.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A is a piston which is worked in a close cylinder, B, that connects, as at b, with the sirupreservoir; at c, with the soda-water generator or fountain; and at d with the filling-head of a bottling-machine. The piston A is restricted in its travel to the lower portion of the main body of the cylinder below the connection or point of attachment b, and is operated by turning it and causing a screw-disk or arms, e, on its rod f to run up and down a spiral groove, g, in the upper portion of the main body of the cylinder. O is a handle for turning the rod f, and which may be fitted with a graduated disk or concentric head, C', graduated on its face, and operating in concert with a fixed index or upright, D, to determine the rotation and rise and fall of 'the piston, ac-

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opening outward or downward, so that when cording to the quantity of sirup it is required to inject or supply in charging a bottle, the head C being provided with a removable stop, 7i, fitting any one of a series of holes, t', to arrest the handle at lits point or place of adjust- Said piston is fitted with a valve, E,

the piston is raised it creates a vacuum which causes the sirup to iiow from the inletb through and below the piston, the height of the lift of the latter determining the amount of sirup so supplied; or, in other words, the space in the cylinder below the piston measuring the sup- D Y- Wlien the piston Ais driven down it eXpels the sirup so received through an orifice, k, in the bottom of the cylinder controlled by a valve, F, and out through the passage d to the filling or bottling-head. This valve is carried by an independent lower valve, G, which controls the admission of soda-water by the inlet c to the space above said valve. These several valves E, F, and G are kept to their seats by springs when gaseous or iuid pressure is removed from them. While the sirup is being expelled through the orifice 7c the valve F is kept open by the pressure of the sirup, and the valve G kept closed in part by its spring and in part or mainly by the pressure of the gascharged water, but as the piston A completes its downward stroke a projection, Z, on its valve E strikes the valve F, and, by forcibly depressing it, lowers or opens the valve G, which admits the sodaor gas-charged water from the inlet c to the space above said valve, and follows up the discharge of sirup through the outlet or passage d, thereby washing or clearing out theintervening space and fittin g the bottle, as required. As the valve, E, however, by the action of the projection l on the valve F, opens the valve G, a stopper, m, attached to the valve E enters the orifice 7c and prevents the sodawater from passing into the body of the cylinder below the piston. When the piston is raised again the valves F and G close for arepetition in diie course of the action,oas before.

Vhat is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the screw-piston or plunger A and its valve E with the close cylinder B and index or measuring device, the and outlet d, essentially as and for the purpose Sirup-inlet b, the valve F7 and outlet d to the or purposes herein set forth.

bottling-head, substantially as speoied. WILLIAM TOLLAST.

` 2. The combination, with the piston A and valve E, ofthe stopper m and projection l, the Witnesses:

oriee k and the valves F and G, arranged in FRED. HAYNES,

relation with each other and with the inlet c R. E. RABEAU. 

